Saxony: coalition partners continue to argue about the energy transition

Dresden (dpa / sn) - Saxony's Greens are still at odds with their coalition partner CDU on the subject of energy.

Saxony: coalition partners continue to argue about the energy transition

Dresden (dpa / sn) - Saxony's Greens are still at odds with their coalition partner CDU on the subject of energy. After Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) declared the energy transition to have failed in the originally planned form on Monday, the Greens countered on Tuesday. "The traffic light federal government is pulling the cart out of the dirt that the CDU has bogged down in Saxony for 16 years with its energy policy failures.

The prime minister should now show humility and a sense of responsibility," explained party leader Christin Furtenbacher in Dresden. "New bluster" every day was out of place. "Such communication poisons the social climate - an additional crisis that arises in these uncertain times nobody needs."

Marie Müser, co-chair of the Greens, considered "public advice from the sidelines" to be inappropriate. Instead of conducting mock debates, the CDU and Kretschmer should put their energies into the expansion of wind and solar energy: "There must now be an end to the ban on thinking when it comes to the expansion of renewable energies. We now need reason and expertise and must honestly put all options on the table in order to achieve the necessary expansion targets for renewables here in Saxony." Everyone should pull together now. Kretschmer is expected to "cooperate constructively with the federal government".

On Tuesday, Kretschmer reiterated his criticism of the federal government's adherence to the energy transition by phasing out nuclear energy and coal-fired power generation. In view of the price explosion on the energy market - caused by Russia's war against Ukraine - he saw the "house of cards" for the energy transition collapsing.